MSNBC Spends Hours on False Story, NBC Gives Seconds to Correction

After MSNBC spent four hours on Thursday breathlessly promoting what turned out to be a false story that federal investigators had been “wiretapping” President Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen for months, NBC’s Today show on Friday only managed 41 seconds of air time to correct the phony bombshell.
Kyle Drennen

Last Man Standing: Tim Allen’s Conservative Sitcom to Return on Fox

If you’re still disappointed that Tim Allen’s sitcom was cancelled last May, well dry your eyes. Last Man Standing will be returning to broadcast television after about a year hiatus. Maybe the Roseanne reboot is making the media slightly more tolerant of blue collar, middle American viewpoints.
Gabriel Hays

King Reverses Course on Rose: ‘Let the Chips Fall Where They May'

Perhaps feeling the heat over her kind words for accused sexual abuser Charlie Rose, CBS This Morning co-host Gayle King backtracked on Friday and said of the investigation: “Let the chips fall where they may.” On Thursday, King declared she was “sick” of covering the sex allegations against her “friend” and former colleague. 

Scott Whitlock

MSNBC SHOCK: Predicts Trump ‘Landslide’ Due to 3.9% Unemployment, NK

The unemployment rate dropped below 4 percent for the first time since 2000, prompting analysts to call it a “wow” number. It also provoked a surprising election analysis from MSNBC Morning Joe contributor Donny Deutsch on May 4.
Julia A. Seymour

'Canoe Fake' Kosinski Lectures State Dept. on 'Fake News' Accusations?

I noted on Tuesday that The Weekly Standard reported that CNN's Michelle Kosinski strongly questioned State Department's Michael Kozak on Trump bashing the press when the department's human-rights report came out. Jack Heretik at the Washington Free Beacon pointed out that Kosinski did it again on Thursday, or World Press Freedom Day, suggesting that any charge of "fake news" is somehow "…
Tim Graham

'Quantico:' Wanting 'World Based on Merit, Hard Work' is Now Racist

ABC’s Quantico returned just last week to bring us up-to-speed after a three-year time jump. Unfortunately, in that time, it doesn’t look like the show managed to evolve past its incredibly biased mindset. Next up this season is the ever-growing threat of people who "dream of a world based on merit, hard work," because apparently they're white supremacists.
Lindsay Kornick

Nets Ignore National ‘Stand for the Second’ Pro-Gun Student Walkout

Not only did the major liberal network news outlets (ABC, CBS, and NBC) and Spanish-language networks Univision and Telemundo ignore a lawsuit alleging a House Democrat of ‘child sex abuse’ during their Thursday evening broadcasts, they also completely overlooked the student-led Stand for the Second nationwide school walkout against gun control. This blackout came after they collectively spent 10…
Nicholas Fondacaro

Rolling Stone: Podesta’s Emails 'Leaked by the Russian Government'

John Podesta's emails were leaked by Wikileaks which means they were really leaked by the Russian government. That's a fact? At least it is a "fact" being pushed by Rolling Stone and much of the rest of the mainstream media despite that fact that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has denied that Russia was the source. 
P.J. Gladnick

Nets Spend 13 Mins on Stormy, Ignore House Dem Accused of ‘Sex Abuse'

On Thursday, The Washington Post reported that Democratic Congressman Tony Cardenas (CA) had named himself as the mystery defendant in a Los Angeles County court filing late last week. The Congressman was accused of fondling a then 16-year-old girl while she was being transported to a hospital for medical treatment. It’s a disturbing allegation that got absolutely ZERO time on the evening…
Nicholas Fondacaro

NYT’s Chozick to RS: Trump ‘Bullied’ Poor Hillary With Bill's Accusers

Rolling Stone’s Tessa Stuart interviewed New York Times campaign reporter Amy Chozick about her new book on covering the Hillary Clinton campaign, and revealed Chozick to be amazingly forgiving of Clinton and quite uncaring about female victims of male predation – at least those whose stories could conceivably hurt Hillary’s chances. And she again apologized about her paper actually covering…
Clay Waters

The Vulgar Goes Mainstream

To be vulgar once earned societal disapproval, ostracism from polite company and -- in my grandmother's era — put a young person in danger of having his mouth washed out with soap. Today, vulgarities are now mainstream. People speaking in a way that "would make a sailor blush" are now on primetime television and words once frowned upon in polite society are now a part of what was once known as…
Cal Thomas

The Health Care Mountain

WASHINGTON — Milton Friedman was not only a brilliant economist — a Nobel laureate, in fact — he was also a gifted writer. In his 1962 book "Capitalism and Freedom," he presciently explained how health care costs were going to leap out of control over the next decades. Sure enough, they did. They multiplied from roughly $1 of every $20 being spent on health care in the 1950s to roughly $1 of…
R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.

Ouch: NBC Issues Massive Correction to Cohen Surveillance Story

What a time to be at NBC. First, Ronan Farrow won a Pulitzer Prize on April 16 for his Harvey Weinstein reporting NBC supposedly tried to suppress. Then, two stories broke one week ago that the network botched its response to the Matt Lauer scandal and former NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw was accused of sexual misconduct. Now, Thursday saw another embarrassment as NBC News was forced to run…
Curtis Houck

Catching Up to CNN? Avenatti Gets 8 MSNBC Appearances in 4 Days

After a Media Research Center study found that Stormy Daniels attorney Michael Avenatti appeared on CNN an astonishing 59 times in less than two months, a number which has already risen in the last 24 hours, MSNBC seems to be trying to catch up, featuring the porn star’s lawyer on its airwaves a total of eight times in just four days, including three separate appearances on Thursday.
Kyle Drennen